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2/21/03

HOW DO YOU DO,
MR. WU?

Dear His
Wu…..

Snap! There
went the 2-inch pencil again. And to think 2 hours ago, it stood perfectly at a
lengthy 5 inches, ready for what should've been another good morning of school.
But it was anything but another good morning, this was different, for Jade
Chan, affable girlfriend to a most unspeakable monstrosity, had set her mind
hoping to communicate with her lover, and was doing a mighty lousy job of it
insofar. Jade's confidence for speaking
her feelings shrank whenever the pencil lead submitted to the vibrations of her
quivering little hand. Cheap 50-cent pencil, Jade thought to herself calmly.

Argh! Writing
letters suck big time, outburst the mentality of a frustrated Jade. Her will
somewhat failing her, Jade left the pencil clattering to the right edge of her
unbalanced desk. Reluctantly taking resignation, she sighed and lightly blew
the small bits of lead over her clean sheet of paper, clean except for the
heading that bore her lover's name. She lulled her face to the desk, and since
every other student tried staying alert to Ms. Lily's lecture, Jade became as
conspicuous as a mole beneath its burrow.

"Jade Chan,
would you so kindly tell the class the answer to the question?" Lily spoke
drolly, as if she actually hoped Jade did not really know. Then Jade could get
punished by getting embarrassed. Jade hated being thought of as a dung heap,
but when she failed answering questions, her intelligence seemed to amount to
that.

"Wha? What did
you say? Answer? Question?"

"Jade, I hope
you are staying alive-"

"I want to
answer the question!" Jade stammered. "But I-I, I didn't hear the question
right. It's kinda hard to when you're next to the window," she pointed an index
finger to the window, and almost on cue the blare of a firefighters' truck came
roaring off into the distance. Jade smiled, shining her teeth.

Ms. Lily
sighed, slightly defeated in her brief ambition. "Very well, Jade. The question
I was trying to ask you was about the level of the sky where rain falls."

"Stratosphere."

"Hmm…You
actually are reading your books. Good, Jade. Now who else would like to answer
a question…."

That was not
even close to heart pounding, Jade realized. Jade obviously knew the question
well because she heard of her boyfriend wanting to reclaim a dominion in the
sky. Must be where he ruled over to keep away his big and bad siblings, Jade
smiled over the thought. Still, she wished she could meet His Wu the Sky Demon
during his construction. She wouldn't feel so lonely every weekend, and today
was the weekly beginning of salvation for a student, Friday.

But how to even
meet with Hsi Wu? He was residing somewhere off the sky, hoping to build his
domain so many miles from San Francisco. Jade murmured in apparent defeat. What
was she to do? She wasn't fast enough to find him before turning back home. She
couldn't fly to whatever heights he was in. And there would be too much terrain
to cross that, as her old uncle Jackie advised, just going was too dangerous.
Jade then remembered that she CAN meet with His Wu. And she knew just the
ticket.

Now all she
needed to do was to gather its 12 components, and the ticket would be hers!

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